I'm obsolete.

After being in charge of church activities for my ward for nearly two years, I was released from my responsibilities today.  I have mixed feelings about this. 

The LDS church will no longer have ward activity committees.  Instead, the ward council will be in charge of any activities that the ward chooses to host.  In our ward, it means that things like the Christmas dinner would be assigned to the Relief Society and the summer barbecue might be the responsibility of the Elder's Quorum.  Something like that.  

We had our final official ward activity last night.  We had a game night for the grownups, and we had four couples show up.  Admittedly, it was kind of a bad night scheduling-wise because there were so many other things going on this weekend.  And we aren't supposed to use the amount of people at any activity to gauge its effectiveness.  But I was just as glad nobody really cared what came out of the activity because I was being released regardless.  Those of us that came had a lot of fun, anyway.

In spite of being officially released, I haven't been able to completely get out of helping with the upcoming ward Christmas party, in spite of trying my best to not take any assignments for that night.  It sounds like I'm still going to be in charge of the dinner.  Argh.  That will be a bad night for me, especially since Wayne will not be there to help me and my kids will probably be crazy.  And I can't really expect anyone from my committee to help out, unless they are just being especially nice, since they have all been released as well.

It's also unusual to have my church calling swept out from under me because people usually get a new calling at church first, and that necessitates being released from the previous one.  It's weird to know that I'm done with my current one, and I'm just waiting for my next assignment from the bishopric.  I'm sure I won't be waiting long, though.